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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Capture from ZIM Desktop Wiki fails

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2013, 11:35 PM »

Ok I can confirm that CHS is not seeing the clipboard text copied by this program.  Since I can reproduce it i will try to fix it and report.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Capture from ZIM Desktop Wiki fails

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2013, 11:32 PM »

Hi Rich.

Apologize for the delay in replying.

I'm trying to think of reasons that that might happen.. There is a tag that programs can add to clipboard to say that the info is security related and CHS ignores those, but somehow I doubt that's the problem..

Let me download ZIM and try and see if i can reproduce.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: "Hands Holding" mask/frame combo...

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2013, 09:16 PM »

Here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=34657.0

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Screenshot Captor / Re: "Hands Holding" mask/frame combo...

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2013, 03:37 PM »

I thought i posted a reply to this but i guess not.
Can you try downloading the new beta, and change your mask filename to
handsholding2.png.mask.png

in other words exactly the same name as the frame file but with .mask.png at end.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: New Update - crashes in Win 8. Win 7 now must open pic from desktop only.

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2013, 02:35 PM »

On windows 8, if you just launch screenshot captor normally and try to capture and manipulate images, does everything work as planned?

Is it only when you try to configure screenshot captor to open your images and then double click on an image file outside screenshot captor that the error occurs?

I'm trying to narrow down your problem -- the first step is figuring out if you are saying screenshot captor errors as soon as you launch it from start menu, or only in certain operations.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: New Update - crashes in Win 8. Win 7 now must open pic from desktop only.

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2013, 01:46 PM »

OK so what's the win8 problem you are having?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: New Update - crashes in Win 8. Win 7 now must open pic from desktop only.

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2013, 11:36 AM »

What's an example path to a network shared image?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: New Update - crashes in Win 8. Win 7 now must open pic from desktop only.

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2013, 10:50 AM »

Ok let's try to do this one thing at a time and start with the win7 issue:

So on windows 7 you are saying Screenshot Captor itself works fine and when you are in it, it works fine.
Your problem is you want to be able to double click png images and have them open in SC.
And that that used to work and now doesnt.

And are you saying that it still works when you do so from an image on a local drive and that the only problem is when double-clicking images on a sharepoint folder?

And what exactly happens when you double click one of these images and it doesn't open -- do you get an error from screenshot captor or just nothing happens?

And so when you say "i now have to drag it to the desktop and then it will open" -- so you are saying that after you copy from sharepoint to your desktop you can double click to open it in screenshot captor and everything works fine.

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If i'm right about all that, then i think what's happened is that SC may now be refusing to open files that look like they are on a network share.. i do think i remember making a change that could have caused that.  IF everything above is correct can you tell me what the PATH of these sharepoint file looks like? An example path for an image i mean.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: New Update - crashes in Win 8. Win 7 now must open pic from desktop only.

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2013, 09:12 AM »

And are you saying the prior versions of screenshot captor worked for you but the new version doesn't?
Or is there a particular action you are trying to perform from the program?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: New Update - crashes in Win 8. Win 7 now must open pic from desktop only.

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2013, 09:08 AM »

Hi shaereka.

Screenshot Captor should run fine on Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Are you using the latest version?

Anyone else having these troubles?

Screenshot Captor runs on tons of windows 7 machines fine, perhaps we should start there since windows 7 is a bit more common.  You say you have to drag images to the desktop in order for them to open.  Can you explain what you mean -- I don't understand what you are saying isn't working.  What are you trying to do and what do you expect to happen and what happens?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Solo Role-Playing online application

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2013, 08:09 AM »

Hi mark, that looks really fun. 

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Living Room / Re: Some Ars Technica articles

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2013, 08:39 PM »

Is there anything I can do about it?

Just try not to let it keep you awake at night.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend free image hosting site?

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2013, 07:42 PM »

What features do you need is the question.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2013, 06:51 PM »

 

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PBOL / Re: Latest Progress Bars of Life - Version 1.03 - April 12, 2013

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2013, 06:43 PM »

Can you add an "gauge text" to show the "current value" & "maximal value" like the percentage? Example, i set maximum value to 100 and current value to 20, with % gauge text i see 20%, is possible to also set 20/100 ?

yes, will do -- good idea.

Another good function will be two button (+/-) next the progress bar, for add/remove value instantly without go to option and set manually it.

i was thinking of adding a feature for manual bars that let you click anywhere on the bar to set the progress to that point.  what do you think of that instead?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenshotCaptor.ini.new in Recycle Bin

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2013, 05:25 PM »

thank you very much for taking the time to show me what the dialog text should be -- i will try to make it like standard.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: 4.02 beta is up

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2013, 03:23 PM »

Uncheck that "try to detect"

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Screenshot Captor / Re: 4.02 beta is up

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2013, 11:35 AM »

Do you have any settings enabled on the "Window Capturing 2" tab?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: 4.02 beta is up

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2013, 10:33 AM »

If I turn off the setting in mouser's screenshot, I get a black titlebar when using an aero theme

can you post (or email me) the screenshot?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: 4.02 beta is up

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2013, 10:25 PM »

cmpm, the new version is explicitly meant to fix that.. have you downloaded the release i uploaded today (i didn't change version # from yesterday but i did upload a new version).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: 4.02 beta is up

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2013, 10:24 PM »

You can fix that by unchecking the checkbox for "Try to capture Aero Glass transparency" on the "Window Capturing 1" tab of options:


A side benefit will be faster active window captures.

The only negative is that SC wont be able to mark the rounded corners as having a transparent area (and that the titlebar will be 100% opaque).


OR if you want to let SC do its smart aero glass transparency but don't want the titlebars to be partially transparent, keep the option checked but then tweak the "Force full transparent when alpha is less than.." option, and make it lower.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: 4.02 beta is up

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2013, 06:45 PM »

What i'd appreciate some help testing is the new post-capture pop-up dialog.  I've changed the order of some operations that take place as you can see in the entry above under "Improvement+BugFix".

So if you use the post-capture dialog, especially if you are using win7 and capture active windows, i'd appreciate you just making sure that things work as expected and that i didn't break anything.

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Screenshot Captor / 4.02 beta is up

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2013, 05:51 PM »

A minor beta release is up (4.02) at beta address:

• https://www.donation...nshotCaptorSetup.exe
• https://www.donation...otCaptorPortable.zip

Changes:
v4.2.0 - April 15, 2013

• [Improvement] Clipboard toolbar button now includes some clipboard paste actions.
• [Improvement] Save and open dialogs are now resizable.
• [Improvement] Holding shift when triggering delete actions now bypasses recycle bin (conforms with standard windows behavior).
• [Improvement] You can now set the custom character used to replace illegal filename characters (default is '_')
• [Improvement+BugFix] Previously, the post-capture pop-up dialog operated on the image PRIOR to any alpha-transparency fixups that were applied to an active window capture; this could result in black areas around images that you copied to clipboard from within the postcapture dialog.  Now such operations are performed prior to display in the post-capture dialog -- Thanks BillS!
• [Change] If you try to trigger an active window capture from system tray menu you now get a message explaining that you can't trigger it that way.
• [BugFix] Previous version was deleting old settings files into the recycle bin.
• [BugFix] Random or black 1-pixel sized borders could appear at bottom and/or right border of image if anti-aliasing is enabled and an object with shadows is placed near bottom of image.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sStockQuote

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2013, 09:48 AM »

That was quick!

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2013, 09:05 PM »

What with them jackhammering up my bathroom to repair an 80 year old steam pipe encased in 12 inches of concrete, I'm in a construction-tool gadget mood.

I want to post about the greatest tool since sliced bread, the oscillating "multi" tool.

There are a bunch of different models of these, from cheap $30 corded versions (that work fine) to $200 cordless versions (i always prefer cordless).

Basically they just vibrate at high speeds and can accept different saw-like heads.  They are very similar in spirit to the ubiquitous dremel (rotary tool), in that there a million different little tasks that they can make quick work of.

Note: A Dremel is as essential, if not more so, than an oscillating tool -- so start with one of those if you don't own one already.

What makes these oscillating multi tools so useful is that they like you use a very thin blade flush with an object and with excellent precision.  For example if you strip a screw you could use it to cut the screw off half way -- or you could use it to slip behind some woodworking trim to cut it loose, etc.

Anyway, I consider it an essential gadget for serious DIY home-construction type folks.




BONUS "gadget":

This may be one of the cheapest non-gadget DIY gadgets I can recommend, but also one of my favorites:

A box of disposable latex gloves:


I always have a couple of boxes of these on hand.. You'd be surprised how handy they are to have around and make a million little tasks less onerous.